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Metal objects found in the bodies of some passengers of the Malaysian Airlines Boeing crashed in Ukraine in July can be fragments of a missile that supposedly hit the aircraft, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said Saturday, according to Sputnik.

"The vast majority of those killed in the crash were identified. Metal objects that do not belong to the aircraft and can be missile fragments were found in the bodies of some victims," the statement said.

On July 17, a Malaysia Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed in Ukraine's eastern region of Donetsk, killing all 298 people on board.

In September, the Dutch Safety Board (DSB), the lead organization in the investigation of the MH17 crash, reported that unidentified fragments were found in the bodies of plane pilots, and that their origin is unknown.

According to the DSB's September preliminary report on the investigation, the Boeing was hit by "a large number of high-energy objects" that penetrated the aircraft from the outside.